Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit defectively designed a metal-on-metal hip implant and should award an Illinois nurse at least $5 million for harm caused by her failed device, her lawyer argued to a Chicago jury.

DePuy knowingly sold defective ASR hips before J&J, the world’s largest seller of health-care products, recalled all 93,000 of the metal-on-metal implants in August 2010, said Denman Heard, an attorney for plaintiff Carol Strum. Heard also urged jurors to award extra damages to punish the company.

“Shame on DePuy for allowing this to happen,” Heard said in his two-hour closing argument at a trial that began March 11. “They could have saved and prevented so much harm.”

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The Strum lawsuit is the second of almost 11,000 around the U.S. to go to trial. On March 8, New Brunswick-based J&J was ordered to pay $8.3 million in compensatory damages by a Los Angeles jury that found the design was defective and DePuy failed to warn of the risks. Analysts have said the cases could cost J&J billions of dollars.

As in the first trial, DePuy’s lawyers today denied that the device made of chromium and cobalt was defective. Heard’s arguments were a “deliberate, conscious and premeditated attempt to play on your sympathy,” DePuy attorney Richard Sarver said in his closing argument.

The design of Strum’s ASR XL, which was implanted in January 2008 and replaced through a revision surgery three years later, “had nothing to do with her outcome,” Sarver said. Rather, he pointed to her biology and health problems, including allergies, migraine headaches, chest and back pains, a family history of Crohn’s disease and apparent autoimmune problems.

J&J faces more than 10,750 ASR lawsuits. About 500 are in state court in Illinois, according to another Strum attorney, Peter Flowers. About three-quarters of the total were consolidated in federal court in Toledo, Ohio. More than 2,000 are in state court in California. Others are in state courts around the U.S.